Hi everyone!! it's been a while since I've had a post like this, but here I am, and today I'm going to tell you a little bit about the new Sotheby skin!!
❗TW: fake blood
Sotheby skin refers to the 1977 movie Suspiria (the name of the movie is on the splashart itself).
Movie plot:
Susie Bannion, a young American ballerina, goes to Europe - to Freiburg im Breisgau (a city in Germany) - to study at the famous ballet academy there. When she arrives there, she sees a student Pam running out of the building in a panic, shouting something about some mystery, and runs away, and Susie is told over the intercom that she is not known or expected. She then leaves in a cab to a hotel. Meanwhile, Pam finds refuge in her friend's apartment. Left alone in the bedroom, the girl does not leave the feeling that she is being watched. Suddenly something pounces on her from behind the window and kills her brutally, and Pam's friend is also killed in the accident.
Details in Splashart and Skin:
Splashart as a whole references one key event from the movie, namely the death of Pam and her friend that was mentioned above in the Plot section.
This is referenced by details such as the wallpaper pattern in the background, the blue curtains, the shadow of the gallows, the hands of a creature, and the tile pattern on the floor that can be found on the splashart.
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AMARA TSUCHIYA
CODENAME: CICADA.
basics.
given name. amara tsuchiya ( née camus ).
callsign. cicada, loud only in the summer.
nickname. amy, give her some.
age. thirty-two ( february 13, 2012 ).
place of birth. portland, maine.
gender identity. cis woman ( she + her ).
orientation. bisexual ( femme lean ).
occupation. public security intelligence for the government / room maid at the nyūtō onsen & resort. former sniper class special operative ( callsign: cicada ) in task force 155.
moral alignment. neutral evil.
character inspiration. carmilla of styria ( castlevania ), widowmaker / amélie lacroix ( overwatch ), samara morgan ( the ring ), helga sinclair ( atlantis: the lost empire ), delilah ( the bible ), amma crellin ( sharp objects ), azula ( avatar: the last airbender ), logan roy ( succession ), susie bannion ( suspiria ).
background.
your story begins at the bottom of a stairway. there, in her child stance lit by night’s glow. a cluster of far-off fireflies, or a whining streetlamp. there, in the poised curve of her back, confident down to the bone marrow. here, in the black speck on her smooth skin like a gnat suspended in the wrong light. glimpses of you, backdropped by the smoothed brick of your mother’s first home. the orphanage: where your choices encumber someone else, before they round back to you. a french woman adopts your mother, and another gaunt daughter. they grow into calling each other sister. just as the refrain starts. every pretty one precludes a clever one, they would say. you can’t be both. the choice isn’t yours. you are born to the pretty one. she dies before you reach a year old. the bare bones of a human. you will never learn to ask for a dead woman’s picture.
the clever one, then, inherits a pretty one. all the hushed baby-lips, without the stretch marks. mine, she dotes, my child. her belly is still ripe from childbearing; its kicks are unimportant. a clever daughter, no doubt, to match this pretty one. somewhere in you, there is a memory that’s not quite a memory. buttered fingers knead into your doughy neck. your lovely, lovely aunt who softly coos as you cry and cry. tears glass those eyes, even now, when she whispers to you with her hands bracketing your nape. for every gilded sunday, plum-dressed and thick-lashed, you will remember the outskirts of your siblings’ posse. how any other would treasure your fresh face, shying away from a pinch on your cherry blossom cheeks. for this face is your mother’s, and such pain wore her to an early grave. the wrinkling shadows, still, settle into your siblings’ grins. you watch them. that is all you can do.
in your isolation, you listen for your aunt’s silent cues. how she won’t respond to mother, no matter how hard her children tug at heart-strings that don’t connect. she ties them to a chair, maybe, and returns to nurse a cold cup of tea. they try to teeth on mama –– a screeching baby, instead of a mewling baby –– to melt a name down their throats, and into their fat hearts. a name that only they may speak. your name is so dear, they want to say, that i would not sully you by saying it. to her, an adulation. to them, a birthright. you are the one to see beyond this. to forget that she could be called mother. her ears prickle, only, when you say her name. helena. the delicacy of her smile is relentless. it curves into her lowered chin. all that gaze for you; this time, that name will be yours. and then, she begins the quote with a clicked tongue. almost breathless when she says, i wish you wouldn’t call me that. your siblings have none of the will to reach for her hand. regardless of their mother’s wants. your aunt-mother holds your hand in the crook of her elbow. they watch you. that is all they can do.
hedged by the dark, her dry hand cups your cheek. she is pale, moon-faced, and the shadows drip crimson from her open mouth. you know your lips curls in the same way. a daughter has her mother’s mouth. the maw possesses no end nor beginning. there is only the blood. anyone who isn’t us is an enemy, she will spew, we are all that matters. you were made to exclude. to inhale ease, and exhale dread. this is how one grows into a soldier. secluded to a daughter’s curse: your mother’s blood-thirst. the child of a fraught house doesn’t realise its loss, even after one calls it a bug’s name. cicada. your rhythm is for you alone. heard only under sunlight; your hum prickles the rays like flickering stars. the old hymn in your heart. i see, i want, i eat.
it is an odd lament, then, to coalesce with a ‘ they ’ as your mother’s daughter. you are part of them. there is no more you. they share your mud-gouged gaze. pull at the hardened roots of your pedestal. their nails will find your weak ribs, and the chewy sinews of your neck. you already found theirs. held and holding. this story still has one ending. with your mother’s fist at your scruff. at the base of a cave, far deeper than six feet under. cold like a broken skin. the reedy bones of a squashed bug. one of them betrays you, and you don’t want your mother. not at the end of your earth’s time. you don’t come back wrong; you were always wrong. a fluttering atrocity: regal in your lack of mercy. half-god like a roach, living long after humanity. a glutton for their own entrails. people are easier when they thrum quietly. amara tsuchiya knows this. she sips life’s nectar, and grows a new set of ribs. metallic, this time, flavoured like spilled blood. the sun will clutch its eclipse; she will be quiet.
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